Olympic Archive Videos

[avlar 454]

On 8/23/2025 at 6:21 PM, JockCartier said:

Archive.org I've found has a lot of stuff. Seem to have a lot that was torrented from 2012 on backed up there, so it's a good resource for more recent stuff. Also have some neat older video from old tapes https://archive.org/details/1992-winter-olympics-day-07-pt.-2

Thank you!

That is really awesome!!

2008 Olympics coverage in 456 files!!!

https://archive.org/details/2008_Beijing_Olympics/

I wish they had earlier Olimpics collected this way too!!

[copravolley 498]

1 hour ago, avlar said:

Thank you!

That is really awesome!!

2008 Olympics coverage in 456 files!!!

https://archive.org/details/2008_Beijing_Olympics/

I wish they had earlier Olimpics collected this way too!!

 Do you remeber this? I twas a very difficult moment for me and it's a shame there weren't two gold medals. In swimming, there would have been two gold medals.

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On 9/3/2025 at 3:29 PM, avlar said:

Thank you!

That is really awesome!!

2008 Olympics coverage in 456 files!!!

https://archive.org/details/2008_Beijing_Olympics/

I wish they had earlier Olimpics collected this way too!!

Yes. This is a great collection! Waiting for some other games as well

[avlar 454]

On 9/3/2025 at 5:23 PM, copravolley said:

 Do you remeber this? I twas a very difficult moment for me and it's a shame there weren't two gold medals. In swimming, there would have been two gold medals.

Yes, I remember it very well. Our first ever gold in kayak/canoe.
It was not clear after the finish - and I recall - the first thought was about - "it will be no gold again".

But the margin was so close - it was like a case of Juha Mieto in cross-country ski in 1980.
By the way, they changed the rules in ski after that.

 

[avlar 454]

On 9/6/2025 at 9:16 AM, rafalgorka said:

Yes. This is a great collection! Waiting for some other games as well

I found there a very valuable footage - one of our cycling track medals. I have not seen that bronze final at all.

By the way - a new/old collection of Olympic videos from Korean TV.

They upload these videos from time to time but then the IOC blocks the channel.
So I do not expect this source to be available permanently.

https://www.youtube.com/@KSFA2024/videos

[copravolley 498]

14 minutes ago, avlar said:

Yes, I remember it very well. Our first ever gold in kayak/canoe.
It was not clear after the finish - and I recall - the first thought was about - "it will be no gold again".

But the margin was so close - it was like a case of Juha Mieto in cross-country ski in 1980.
By the way, they changed the rules in ski after that.

 

In 2008 on Bejing OG, Ukraina have been a lot of scandals with doping, if I remember well? In that time, the post-Soviet model was still in force in your country, as it was in Russia at that time, meaning that public authorities supported doping?

Edited September 11 by copravolley

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4 hours ago, copravolley said:

In 2008 on Bejing OG, Ukraina have been a lot of scandals with doping, if I remember well? In that time, the post-Soviet model was still in force in your country, as it was in Russia at that time, meaning that public authorities supported doping?

That was a moment of proud - the highest number of medals - and then - a moment of shape because of the highest number of medals lost due to doping cases.

But it was not a question of authrorities. We were and are highly different with russia in this sphere: number of Olympic medals has never been a question of national importance as it was and is in russia.

It is notable that most of the politicians brought to the top after the Orange Revolution did not have personal interests in sport. So the decisions were really made at the level of the national sport federations (like weightlifting). And when the sports were competitive at the national level, it was a question of discipline coaches and personal coaches (like athletics).

So I would say it was a systematic problem in 2008 in weigtlifting (and it exists now - this sport gets a lot of money from Herega`s but it makes no sense with the number of doping cases we have) and in some "sectors" of athletics. 
 

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1 hour ago, avlar said:

That was a moment of proud - the highest number of medals - and then - a moment of shape because of the highest number of medals lost due to doping cases.

But it was not a question of authrorities. We were and are highly different with russia in this sphere: number of Olympic medals has never been a question of national importance as it was and is in russia.

It is notable that most of the politicians brought to the top after the Orange Revolution did not have personal interests in sport. So the decisions were really made at the level of the national sport federations (like weightlifting). And when the sports were competitive at the national level, it was a question of discipline coaches and personal coaches (like athletics).

So I would say it was a systematic problem in 2008 in weigtlifting (and it exists now - this sport gets a lot of money from Herega`s but it makes no sense with the number of doping cases we have) and in some "sectors" of athletics. 
 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics

 

Do you remember that? On paper looks like very good + Ukraine had many team sports in that time: women's basketball, women's volleyball and men's water polo Why was water polo so strong in your country back then?

 

Of these medalists, I only know Klitschko :P Bubka was a flag- bearer then, but I see he didn't win anything, why? (DNS, maybe some injures?).

Edited September 11 by copravolley

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16 hours ago, copravolley said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics

 

Do you remember that? On paper looks like very good + Ukraine had many team sports in that time: women's basketball, women's volleyball and men's water polo Why was water polo so strong in your country back then?

 

Of these medalists, I only know Klitschko :P Bubka was a flag- bearer then, but I see he didn't win anything, why? (DNS, maybe some injures?).

Yes ) And I have rewatched a film about our successes in Atlanta, so I have recall a lot ))

That team sport successes were really a part of Soviet heritage. Teams were sponsored by big factories but after the huge crisis of 1993-1994 it was too difficult to continue sponsorship. During the next decade team sports (except football where oligarchs brought their money) lost their financial ground.

Bubka was really injuried. He was the king of the WCH but not of the Olympics.

That team was very strong - with the gymnastics on the very top. Podkopayeva especially.

 

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1 hour ago, avlar said:

Yes ) And I have rewatched a film about our successes in Atlanta, so I have recall a lot ))

That team sport successes were really a part of Soviet heritage. Teams were sponsored by big factories but after the huge crisis of 1993-1994 it was too difficult to continue sponsorship. During the next decade team sports (except football where oligarchs brought their money) lost their financial ground.

Bubka was really injuried. He was the king of the WCH but not of the Olympics.

That team was very strong - with the gymnastics on the very top. Podkopayeva especially.

 

Water polo has also collapsed in Russia and Germany, recently. Now it's a niche sport for 7-8 countries in southern Europe + USA/Australia.

Edited September 12 by copravolley